Includes bibliographical references and index.

'He made us very much like the flowers' : human/nature in nineteenth-century Anglo-American children's literature / Maude Hines --
'Foundation stones' : natural history for children in St. Nicholas magazine / Kaye Adkins --
Somewhere outside the forest : ecological ambivalence in Neverland from The little white bird to Hook / M. Lynn Byrd --
The wild and wild animal characters in the ecofeminist novels of Beatrix Potter and Gene Stratton-Potter / Marion W. Copeland --
Arthur Ransome and the conservation of the English lakes / Karen Welberry --
E.B. White's paean to life : the environmental imagination of Charlotte's web / Lynn Overholt Wake --
EcoLewis : conservation and anticolonialism in The chronicles of Narnia / Nicole M. DuPluss --
Playing seriously with Dr. Seuss : a pedagogical response to The Lorax / Bob Henderson, Merle Kennedy, and Chuck Chamberlin --
'The world around them' : the changing depiction of nature in Owl magazine / Tara L. Holton and Tim B. Rogers --
Still putting out 'fires' : Ranger Rick and animal/human stewardship / Arlene Plevin --
Environmental justice children's literature : depicting, defending, and celebrating trees and birds, colors and people / Kamala Platt --
(Em)bracing icy mothers : ideology, identity, and environment in children's fantasy / Naomi Wood --
Eco-edu-tainment : the construction of the child in contemporary environmental children's music / Michelle H. Martin --
'It's not easy being green' : Jim Henson, the Muppets, and ecological literacy / Sidney I. Dobrinn --
Cartoons and contamination : how the multinational kids help Captain Planet save Gaia / Susan Jaye Dauer --
Disney of Orlando's animal kingdom / Kenneth B. Kidd.

Today's children are occupied with activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or are simulations of the earth's natural environment. This text examines the ways in which literature, media, and other cultural forms for young people address nature, place, and ecology.